The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-05
hears the news no ordinary plebesn could
with any certainty predict.

hears the news no ordinary plebean could
with any certainty predict,
AR. ALEXANDER BELF0RD
said last evening that he could not vouch
for the truth of the woman's story, it was
very plausible, and one OF his agents had
verified the circumstances of the morgan
tic marriage of her alleged royal father.
He also claimed the resemblance of the
Princess Adelaide, as he speaks of her, to
Queen Victoria was most striking, while
the crown princess of Germany bore no re-
semblaDce to the Guelph family. Mr.. Bel
ford received last evening from his brother
in New York the following telegram, CIV
ing in brief the woman's story, which she
is soon to publish:
Prince Albert, before his marriage with
Queen Victoria, was married morganatical-
ly to the Countess Reuss in Germany in
November, 1910. Queen Victoria and the
countess gave birth to female children al
most at the same time. The countess, un-
dar threat of exposure, compelled Prince
Albert to exchange the two infants, q SUBJ
stitution which was effected through the
Intervention of the royal nurse. The
queens child was taken to France in
charge of Lady Anna Campbell and was
brought up in her care until her eighth
year at Poisse. near Paris, a Bavarisn ser.
want named Peter Seidl, being their pro-
tector. The queens child was called So
phia Adelaide. The countess child,
in the royal b household in Eng
land, was brought up as prin-
cess, and is now wife OF the crown prince
of Germany. In 1S48. or thereabouts, So
phia Adelaide, then about eight years old,
vsris, where she was educated for few
years. She was afterward taken to Schles-
| wig-Holstein, where she and Lady Anna
Campbell lived for some time in the house
of friend and agent of Prince Albert
named Count de Lundi, who passed as uu-
Gle to Sophia Adelaide. In his charge and
that OF Lady Anne, Sophia Adelaide went
to Italy and France, and afterward, when
about twelve years old, to the Isle of
Bourbon in the Indian ocean. They soon
removed to Quito, in South America, and
thence to New Orleans, the date being
about 1854.
The cholera was making great ravages,
| and they removed from precaution to Day
ton, o., where her protector, the Count de
Lundi, took cholera and died. Before his
| death he disclosed to Sophia Adelaide the
mystery OF her birth, and gave her med
allion with the portrait of her mother,
| Queen Victoria. This death bed disclosure
was made in the presence and in the hear
ing of DR.. Bradbeck, the attending physi-
clan, and Father Hahn, OR Hahemann, the
officiating priest. In order to give Sophia
|
Count de Lundi married her.
ON HIS DEATH-BED,
Father Hahn performing the ceremony. A
few months laIer Lady Anna died and
Sophia Adelaide (now the widowed count
ess of Lundi) was left alone in a strange
country. she then went to live at New Or
leans with the femily of Col. Pierce,
whose acquaintance che had previously
made. She was in receipt of a handsome
|
urging her to return thither, but she was
afraid of beng immured in a convent and
declined and left New Orleans for Dayton
by the Mississippi steamer Rainbow
which, however, was burned on the trip
and sank, about 100 lives being lost
Sophia Adelaide, though severely scaldeC
by steam, was saved, but all her paper,
and trunks were lost. She reached Dayton
and afterward, in 1859, married an Ameri
can physician of Kentucky. In 1861 hel
father died.
In 1870 she obtained divorce from hel
husband and returned TO Europe, travel
ing there for several years. All this tim,
her pension had been regularly paid to he
through Rev. Edward Bouverle, of Cole
hill, England. About 1876 it wal
suddenly sOI stepped: She 9ob1 had R-o be
Queen Victoria's Highland servant
and appealed to him regarding his pension
and he sent her money on two or three oc
casions. but he died in 1882, and she ha
been without regular means OF support
She states that she Las appealed to he
royal connections for justice and recogni
ton, but in vain. and she has now re
turned to America to appeal to publ
opinion here to see IL she cannot get justic
in that way. She is now in New Yorl
superinteDding the publication of her Life
which is expected to be out in few day:
and to create q sensation. She certainl
bears a most remarkable resemblance t
Queen Victoria, whom she claims 10 be he
real mother.
The confidence of people who have trie
Hoods Sasaparilla, in this preparation,